The acting is merely passable, several characters are given nothing to do, and Michael's paranoid self-pity lends the film an absurd morality: Coppola expects us to sympathise with the semblance of virtue.
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06/24/06
The Godfather Part III (1990)
65 %
Reviews Counted: 51 Fresh: 33 Rotten:18 Average Rating: 6.4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 50 mins
Synopsis: In the third film of Francis Ford Coppola's Corleone family saga, 20 years have passed and Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is in failing health and haunted by remorse over his brother Fredo's murder. As part of his plan for legitimizing the family business, Michael contributes a large donation... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Joe Mantegna, Eli Wallach, Diane Keaton
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Reviews
Top Critic
Fans of the first two instalments are likely to find The Godfather Part III an unworthy heir to the tradition. First-time voters, meanwhile, will surely wonder what on earth all the fuss was all about.
09/15/04
Top Critic
Anyone with memories of The Godfather and its 1974 sequel will shudder at how Coppola reduces their powerful iconography to the level of a daytime soap.
04/17/01
Top Critic
Considering the way it inadvertently lampoons and nearly diminishes the earlier two films, this is nothing less than a travesty.
02/07/08
The movie, a heady thicket of political intrigue and double crosses, is slower, talkier, and more prosaic than the first two films, and its narrative seams sometimes show. And yet it's more than the sum of its mazelike convolutions.
12/12/07
The Godfather Part III matches its predecessors in narrative intensity, epic scope, socio-political analysis, physical beauty and deep feeling for its characters and milieu.
12/12/07
Top Critic
An epic without epic scope, a muted, strained, unnatural affair that never comes into dramatic focus.
12/12/07
Represents a certain moral improvement over its predecessors by refusing to celebrate and condemn violence and duplicity in the same breath, or at least to the same degree.
12/12/07
Indeed the disappointment many of its detractors assert it to be - in the same way that some of Orson Welles' subsequent works can be called disappointments when compared to Citizen Kane.
10/25/07
Very few have stepped up to bat to defend The Godfather Part III (1990), which I consider a masterpiece and the equal of Parts I and II.
10/20/06
I think if you can take a step back from the first two movies and if you can ignore the younger Ms. Coppola, this is still a more artful and ambitious movie than the industry standard.
09/28/05
To call this the weakest of the three movies is like calling Fredo the weakest of the three brothers. Duh.
09/24/04
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